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the ssl handshake latency isn't why sysadmins don't want to implement everything over https. the reason (or at least 5 years ago when sysadmin was my primary r
by saranagati 15y ago
the ssl handshake latency isn't why sysadmins don't want to implement everything over https. the reason (or at least 5 years ago when sysadmin was my primary role) is because the additional cpu power it takes to encrypt all the data is huge.
- rdl 15y agoThat's not really true now. CPUs have gotten faster, the speed of light has remained the same, and actually with users on crappy wireless/cell connections (and, increasingly, international), network latency is even more of an issue now.
- dangrossman 15y agoI don't think that's really the case anymore. CPUs have just gotten that much faster. I run a node.js server with https on Linode's cheapest VPS that handles hundreds of requests per second. The server load is at ~0.00 most of the day.